Future Prospects of Flexible, Large-Area Sensors and Actuators with Organic Transistor ICs

We report recent progress and future prospects of organic field-effect transistors and their applications to flexible, large-area sensors and actuators. In particular, we describe stretchable electronic artificial skins (e-skins) for robots, pocket image scanners suitable for mobile applications, and Braille sheet display with plastic actuator arrays. We also present recent progress of reliability and stability issues; encapsulation techniques to suppress chemical degradation and annealing techniques to reduce the effect of DC bias stress